Abstract: A bill handling apparatus, such as an ATM, for handling bills each having an IC chip which holds unique discriminative information includes a manipulating unit for selecting the type of transaction to be done by a customer. A controller is provided for recognizing the type of the transaction selected with the manipulating unit. A bill discriminator reads a surface information on the bills and performs true/false determination. A wireless IC reader reads discriminative information held by the IC chips of the conveyed bills. The discriminative information, result of discriminating the bills, and transaction information are searchable for tracing the bill.

Abstract: A bill handling apparatus, such as an ATM, for handling bills each having an IC chip which holds unique discriminative information includes a manipulating unit for selecting the type of transaction to be done by a customer; a controller for recognizing the type of the transaction selected with the manipulating unit; a conveying path for conveying bills; a surface information reader for reading surface information on the bills conveyed over the conveying path and performing true/false determination of the bills; a wireless IC reader for reading discriminative information held by the IC chips of the conveyed bills; and a memory device for storing information on a result of determination by the surface information reader, discriminative information obtained by the IC reader and information on the type of transaction by the customer recognized by the controller, all matched with one another.